Word: ludendorffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Though a Feldmarschall, he never wore a general's uniform and pickelhaube (spiked helmet) but always the broad black fur cap of the Death's Head Hussars, whose colonel-in-chief he was. He never, even for the sake of camouflage, rode anything but the whitest of horses. Unlike Ludendorff, who now is going crazy, he never proclaimed himself a God-inspired military genius, or even took personal credit for his armies' triumphs. Almost feminine in grace, he of all the German generals never failed to kiss the hand of his close friend and chief, Kaiser Wilhelm...
...Radoslavoff, always pro-German, who took Bulgaria into the War on the German side when most Bulgarians were in favor of neutrality. It was Prime Minister Radoslavoff, occasionally farsighted, who refused (he now says) to declare war on the U. S. against the earnest entreaties of temperamental General von Ludendorff...
...home. A good story would be made out of an encounter with at least a Prussian Oberst! The job was just completed when they were struck dumb with terror by the appearance in the doorway of a herculean figure dressed in the same enemy color, voice and frown suggesting Ludendorff. The thieves fled in opposite directions leaving the mule to stop the Germans...
...befuddled generals that the room was full of soldiers, ugly grinning fellows with leveled bayonets. Tipsily "Ludendorf" Yang squinted, then whipped out his Mauser pistol-a second too late. The soldiers had already shot and bayonetted General Chang Yin-huai and before General Yang could fire he too, "The "Ludendorff" was foully murdered...
Such were circumstantial details flashed from Mukden via Japan to the U. S. Since the Japanese are no friends of Young Chang, confirmation must be awaited. Quite another story which seeped out of Mukden was that "Ludendorff" Yang was unmasked in a plot to oust Young Chang, discovered to have "misappropriated" staggering sums, and presently shot as a traitor before a firing squad...